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Trump and Pelosi are already contradicting each other about their supposed deal on immigration

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a press briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington

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WASHINGTON
- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi elaborated on her
Wednesday-night dinner with President Donald Trump and Senate
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, saying that she trusts the
president "is sincere and understanding that the public supports"
their reported agreement to move forward with the DREAM Act
coupled with added border security measures.

"He too wanted to see some border initiatives, which we said we
would look into," Pelosi added, noting that "any solution to the
challenges facing the dreamers must include the bipartisan DREAM
Act."

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One bill Pelosi touted to Trump would add 5,000 additional
customs agents, 5,000 border patrol officers, and allow the
National Guard to assist on the border excluding immigration
enforcement.

Pelosi said that "no question" a potential package would have
enough votes in the House, despite many of the more progressive
members of the Democratic caucus wanting
nothing but a clean, straight-up DREAM Act, which protects
undocumented immigrants who were raised in the United States.

However, the agreement between the Democratic leaders and the
president was less formal than they had originally let on. And
Trump and Pelosi seem to be contradicting each other on whether a
path to citizenship for Dreamers would be included in any
agreement.

"It was interpreted by some that we had a deal on the bill. But
that wasn't on the package. That wasn't the case," Pelosi noted
of the dinner with Trump after he said Thursday that "no deal was
made."

"We had an agreement to move forward," she added.

In terms of a pathway to citizenship, Pelosi shrugged off the
suggestion that it counted as "amnesty." Pelosi noted that the
DREAM Act would include a long-term pathway to citizenship and
that "they get way at the end of the line of people who have been
here fully documented."

"It's a long path," Pelosi said. "It's like a 15-year path, and
this is an earned path, in other words, in the DREAM Act. It's an
earned path, but it is a long road. ... We agreed on our path,
which is our insistence in every conversation with the speaker,
with the president, with the Dreamers that it will be the DREAM
Act sponsored by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard."

But within moments of Pelosi's remarks, Trump quashed the idea of
potential citizenship while on the tarmac in Florida.

"We're not looking at citizenship," Trump said. "We're not
looking at amnesty. We're looking at allowing people to stay
here."

Trump is also insisting that a wall will still be built along the
southern border of the US, one of his signature campaign
promises, despite Democratic opposition.